Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Resilient, Sustainable and Smart Ballasted Railway Track

1st Edition
July 24, 2025
Yunlong Guo + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Resilient, Sustainable and Smart Ballasted Railway Track explores the optimization of railway ballast tracks to achieve resilience, sustainability, and intelligence in railway infrastructure. It summarizes and examines new technologies and developments that address unresolved rapid defects in track components, such as rail damage, track stability, ballast flight, and ballast fouling. This book discusses the application of innovative materials derived from waste and recycled railway components, including derived aggregates, recycled ballast, Neoballast, and polyurethane (often referred to as ballast glue). This book examines state-of-the-art structural health monitoring techniques, such as smart sleepers, interferometric synthetic aperture radar, ground-penetrating radar, and inspection robots.

Vertebrate Ichnology

1st Edition
July 20, 2025
Spencer G Lucas + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Vertebrate Ichnology: Fish Ichnology, Consumption, Burrows and Reproduction, Geoconservation is a comprehensive and meticulously researched review and analysis of the entire vertebrate trace fossil record, shedding light on lesser-known vertebrate traces beyond footprints. From vertebrate burrows to the ichnology of reproduction, each chapter provides valuable insights and up-to-date information. The book explores a wide range of topics, including consumption through coprolites, dentalites, regurgitalites, and other trace fossils that are evidence of vertebrate predation and consumption.This authoritative reference provides students, researchers, and professionals in the field of Earth and Planetary sciences with updated information on the geological heritage of vertebrate ichnosites and their importance in geoconservation efforts.

Bridging the Gap

1st Edition
Volume 73
July 18, 2025
Delphine Neff + 3 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Bridging the Gap: Corrosion Science For Heritage Contexts explores the decision-making processes for preserving heritage metals while also examining the collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships that underpin them. Through themed chapters, the book is designed to develop and strengthen collaboration between these three groups of professionals, creating a synergy that benefits research and practice for the preservation of heritage metals. It builds an overview of metals conservation across a broad range of heritage contexts, from indoor museum displays to fixed outdoor structures and moving objects.Researchers and practitioners provide critical insights into corrosion problems within heritage, current corrosion mitigation procedures, and the evidence supporting best practice guidance. The book will be a valuable reference resource for corrosion and corrosion protection scientists, heritage preservation scientists, conservation practitioners, and students studying preservation of cultural objects.

The Decentralized Hydrogen Revolution Using Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Blockchain

1st Edition
July 17, 2025
Hossein Pourrahmani + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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The Decentralized Hydrogen Revolution Using Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Blockchain provides an essential guide to understanding the transformative potential of advanced technologies in decentralized hydrogen communities. This comprehensive resource covers the intersection of AI, IoT, and blockchain with sustainable energy, offering insights from foundational principles to advanced applications. Readers will learn about the environmental benefits of hydrogen over fossil fuels, electrolysis, and the integration of innovative technologies to enhance hydrogen production and distribution. The book delves into the role of fuel cells in clean energy, advanced AI algorithms in hydrogen production, blockchain trust in hydrogen networks, and IoT connectivity.Economi... considerations, policy frameworks, and the future of decentralized hydrogen communities are also explored, making this an invaluable reference for researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, and students interested in the hydrogen economy.

Sustainable Additives in Polymer Technology

1st Edition
July 15, 2025
Henri Vahabi + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Sustainable Additives in Polymer Technology provides a comprehensive guide to bio-based additives for polymers, balancing both fundamental and advanced information. The book aims to offer practical guidance for researchers and industry professionals on selecting, ranking, formulating, and applying these additives in polymer manufacturing. Each additive's role in the industry and its mechanisms of action are thoroughly covered, offering readers a complete understanding of their applications. The book is divided into several parts: an overview of bio-based additives, industrial and research developments, classification of materials, advantages and challenges, as well as the mechanisms of performance.It also delves into the economic aspects and commercial grades of each additive family, concluding with future research directions and developments.

Additively Manufactured Smart Materials and Structures

1st Edition
July 14, 2025
Rajkumar Velu + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Additively Manufactured Smart Materials and Structures: Design, Processing, and Applications provides a critical overview of the fabrication, design, processing, characterization, structure-property relationships, and applications of 3D printed smart materials. The book practically outlines design strategies and manufacturing techniques across a variety of disciplines, including membrane technology, catalysis, batteries, supercapacitors, sensing, biosensing, aerospace, automobile, construction, and biomedical. Users will find a critical evaluation of the scientific literature that has already been published to highlight the significance, the technoeconomic aspects, the major difficulties, and the benefits and drawbacks of additively built smart materials.Advanced 3D printing techniques, including stereolithography (SLA), fused deposition modeling (FDM), selective laser sintering (SLS), electron beam melting (EBM), direct ink writing (DIW), and 3D plotting are discussed in detail. The book also offers a thorough analysis of the microstructure, mechanical, thermal, and surface properties of smart materials and structures produced using additive manufacturing.

Biopolymers from Microorganisms for a Green Future

1st Edition
July 14, 2025
Pratima Bajpai
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Biopolymers from Microorganisms for a Green Future: Microbial Biopolymers offers comprehensive insights into microbial biopolymer composites, evaluating strengths and weaknesses, and exploring the thermal and functional properties of natural material-reinforced biopolymers. It emphasizes process engineering en route to commercialization. Starting with an introduction and general background, it classifies biopolymers and covers microbial and composite biopolymers, from production to applications. The book then addresses future research needs and directions, making it relevant for researchers, students, professionals, analysts, and consultants in various fields.The book delves into the latest advancements in microbial biopolymer production, commercialization strategies, and potential applications across various industries. It provides detailed analysis of biopolymer types, production processes, and practical applications. Special emphasis is placed on the future of biocomposites, eco-friendly innovations, and sustainable industrial practices. This resource is indispensable for those seeking to understand and contribute to the field of biotechnology and environmental engineering.

Analysis of Chiral Pollutants in the Environment: Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications

1st Edition
Volume 111
July 10, 2025
Irene Aparicio + 2 more
English
Hardback
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Analysis of Chiral Pollutants in the Environment: Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications, Volume 111 provides in-depth information on a variety of chiral pollutants. Chapters in this new release include Fundamentals of chirality. Enantioselective behavior and ecotoxicity of environmental chiral pollutants, Chiral pharmaceuticals in environmental samples, An overview of the enantioselective determination of pesticides in environmental samples, An overview of the enantioselective determination of illicit drugs in environmental samples, Recent progress in the analysis of isomers and enantiomers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in environmental and biological samples, An overview of the enantioselective determination of polychlorinated biphenyls in environmental samples, and much more.Additional chapters cover an overview of the enantioselective determination of musk fragrances in environmental samples, Supercritical fluid chromatography with mass spectrometry for the determination of chiral pollutants, Multidimensional chromatography. A powerful technique in analysis of chiral agrochemicals in environment, Capillary electrophoresis for the determination of chiral pollutants, Indirect chromatographic approach for enantioselective analysis of chiral environmental pollutants, Chiral pesticide fate in soils: processes, experimental considerations, and case studies, and many more interesting topics.

Advances in Process Control with Real Applications

1st Edition
July 9, 2025
Ch. Venkateswarlu
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Advances in Process Control with Real Applications presents various advanced controllers, including the formulation, design, and implementation of various advanced control strategies for a wide variety of processes. These strategies include generalized predictive control with and without constraints; linear and nonlinear model predictive control; dynamic matrix control; nonlinear control, such as generic model control, globally linearizing control, and nonlinear internal model control; optimal and optimizing control; inferential control; intelligent control based on fuzzy reasoning and neural networks; and controllers based on stochastic and evolutionary optimization.This book will be highly beneficial to students, researchers, and industry professionals working in process design, process monitoring, process systems engineering, process operations and control, and related areas.

Decision Systems

1st Edition
July 9, 2025
Pallavi Vijay Chavan + 3 more
English
Paperback
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Decision Systems: Integrating Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, and Artificial Neural Networks provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the principal techniques used to build effective decision-making systems. This book covers the fundamental principles and concepts of machine learning, fuzzy logic, and artificial neural networks, and explains how these techniques can be used to build intelligent decision-making systems that can learn from data, reason, and make accurate predictions. The book also presents a wide range of applications of machine learning, fuzzy logic, and artificial neural networks in various domains, such as engineering, medicine, finance, and robotics. The book also provides practical guidance on how to design and implement effective decision-making systems using these techniques and discusses the potential challenges and limitations of machine learning, fuzzy logic, and artificial neural networks, and how to overcome them. The book provides a stepwise approach to provide readers with the knowledge and tools they need to build intelligent decision-making systems, including a robust introduction to the mathematical concepts and principles necessary to understand the concepts and applications of Decision Systems and Machine Learning algorithms. Next, the book provides readers with an in-depth explanation and demonstration of two of the major machine learning techniques – Fuzzy Logic/Fuzzy Set Theory and Artificial Neural Networks – followed by an in-depth look at more advanced topics that play essential roles in making machine learning algorithms more useful in practice, including creating full-fledged Recurrent Networks and their mathematical foundations, Associative Memories, and Deep Learning networks such as Convolutional Neural Networks, Generative Adversarial Networks, Radial Basis Function Networks, Multilayer Perceptrons, and Self-Organizing Maps. The lynchpin of the book provides readers with an understanding of how the various types of techniques can be integrated to create dynamic Decision Systems. The book wraps up with coverage of challenges and opportunities in Decision Systems along with real-world applications of Decision Systems with case studies in healthcare, finance, education, social media, and agriculture.

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